One Adventureous Weekend

The kids had a four day weekend in honor of President's Day, daddy was off and it was Valentine's Day. Definitely reason enough to celebrate! Our weekend consisted of a picnic lunch at the park (Our first 'family outing' with Kelden), a silly string war, bicycling, and building a potato canon. What more could a child ask for?

Happy Valentine's Day!

Valentine's Day is my most loved holiday! I love the color red and I absolutely love anything with hearts! My kids know this about me, so when I asked them to take our annual Valentine photo, they obliged. Thanks guys! You're troopers!

WISHING YOU ALL A VERY

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

ALL OUR LOVE & XOXO,

BRIAN & ANGELA

HAILEY, KEAGAN, BETHANY & KELDEN

Our Valentine Babes!

Just chillin'.

Pucker up.

Sleepytime.

A Birthday Weekened

In the same week, we welcomed into our family little Kelden and celebrated Hailey's 11th Birthday! Caring for an infant and nurturing the needs of a pre-teen can sometimes make your head spin. However, I consider it pure joy to be their mother and to share in all their milestones.

Hailey,
You continue to amaze Daddy and I with your level of maturity and your insight into life. You pour your heart and your soul into everything you do. You are a hard worker and a diligent student. Your love for life radiates through your smile. You are a blessing to us all! We love and appreciate EVERYTHING about you! Happy Birthday, Hailey-Bug. Your are our forever Sunshine!

Much Love,

xoxox

Dad & Mom

Hailey had 2 friends, Ashley & Jessica overnight on Friday. The girls enjoyed making hair ribbons before heading off to their Cheer performance at F.C.H.S.

Auntie Kate assisted again this year with the cheer clinic.

Hailey just LOVES her time with Kate!

Back home for a quick ice cream sundae before bedtime.

Pete broke Hailey's banana at lunchtime so Ashley thought it would be quite fitting to wrap one up in Hailey's present. These two crazy girls!

American Eagle already! Our little girl is growing up!

Brian took Hailey, Ashley & Jessica to a snow park in Immigrant Gap on Saturday. Everyone was up by 6:45 a.m. and ready to leave by 7:30 a.m. Brian swung them into the doughnut shop on the way for a little breakfast. It was not the ideal weather conditions for a day in the snow, but Brian said that nothing was going to slow this group of girls down; especially Hailey. She was like the energizer bunny! The 4 of them did A LOT of fast sledding, built a snow cave and made several hilarious "survival" videos under Producer Brian. They made it back into Yuba City by 4:30 p.m. where I met up with them for dinner at In-Out Burger. The girls were delivered safely to their homes by 6:00p.m. well fed, but absolutely exhausted.

On Sunday, we had family over to enjoy an early dinner and ice cream sundaes. Thanks to everyones help we survived the night and Hailey had a GREAT birthday!

Welcome to the World

We are proud to announce that

Kelden Chase Warta

has arrived!

January 31, 2010

9:39 am

7 pounds 11 ounces

20 inches

Both Mommy and Kelden are doing great and Hailey, Keagan, and Bethany can't wait to get him home!

We love you Kelden! Welcome to the world!

We're on baby time...

January has been a slow, but steady month. Keagan started basketball (a christian based league called Upward Basketball) and is loving it. Hailey is getting ready to participate in the annual cheer clinic put on by the F.C.H.S. cheerleaders (Auntie Kate is helping out this year. Yeah!) and to begin her State report. Bethany absolutely loves going to preschool with Cousin Landon and is like a little "sponge". We are all anticipating the arrival of Kelden. Hopefully, he makes his arrival in January rather than February. We'll keep you all posted. Until then, here are a few of our January happenings...

The Sportsman's Expo-

Watching the dog show is always the highlight for us all.

Bethany, Landon & Claire enjoyed the opportunity to use an umbrella.

Claire rose to the occasion to shoot the turkeys when Bethany and Landon were too skittish.

Hailey gave it her all in competing for the second year in the Casting Kids Contest.

Bethany, Claire and Auntie Casey were mesmerized with this stuffed giraffe.

The day was filled with a few showers, a ton of laughter, and lots of walking, but still no baby.

Fun with Friends-

Keagan and Bethany have enjoyed putting puzzles together.

One of many sibling sleepovers...

one of many Nerf gun wars...

and one of many "cheer leading girl times".

Cousin Lacey's 15th birthday party-

Like Grandfather... like Granddaughter.